Water-proof boot or shoe



(No Model.)

7 Will mauve J H. F. G. PEARSON.

WATER PROOF BOOT 0R SHOE.

Patented Aug. 1, 1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY v. 0. PEARSON, OF ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS.

WATER-PROOF BOOT OR SHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 261,952, dated August 1, 1882.

Application filed June 14, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, HENRY F. G. P ARSON, of Andover, in the county of Essex, of the State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Boots or Shoes; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 denotes a longitudinal and Fig. 2 a transverse section of aboot of my invention.

In making water-proofshoes or boots of the composition known as vulcanizabe indiarubber it has been customary to line them with cloth or a material that would endure without injury the heat necessary to the performance of the vulcanizing of the rubber or water-proof composition. For such purpose leather has not, to my knowledge, been employed, as it will not withstand the temperature of vulcanization without injury; but

leather as a lining for a water-proof boot is much preferable to cloth, because it is more comfortable to wear and enables the boot to be easier drawn on or off the foot of a'person. I have therefore sought to produce a waterproof vulcanized rubber boot or shoe having a lining of leather; and in carrying out my invention I do not cement the lining to the rubing and applied it to a last or boot-tree I- with water-proof cement apply to such lining and to each other the upper and sole composed of vulcanized rubber. In this way I completely avoid subjecting the lining to the heat of vulcanization. The flesh side of the leather I usually place next to the rubber, in order for the smooth or hair side to be next the stocking when the boot or shoe may be upon the foot of a person.

In the drawings, a denotes the leather lining; I), the upper; c, the sole, and d the heel, such upper, sole, and heel being of india-rubber vulcanlzed before being cemented to each other and to the leather lining.

I have found that a water-proof or vulcanized rubber boot or shoe of my invention can be easily and durably made, and not only in most, if not all cases, present a better appearance than one lined with cloth and afterward vulcanized, but have important advantages over such.

I do not claim the mere substitution of leather for cloth as a lining for water-proof boots or shoes; nor do I claim a boot or shoe having a lining of cloth and an upper and sole of a vulcanizable material or'composition vulcanized after being combined with the cloth HENRY F. c. PEARSON.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, S. N. PIPER. 

